Structuralism: Who's Who? Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Structuralism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who argued that the literary critic's relationship to literary discourse is the same as the linguist's relationship to language?
Tzvetan Todorov
Roland Barthes
Vladimir Propp
Roman Jakobson
Q. Who looked at a whole bunch of folktales and came to the conclusion that all folktales reflect one of 31 underlying "functions"?
Jacob Grimm
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Vladimir Propp
Wilhelm Grimm
Q. Who argued that the same underlying rules and structures govern family relationships in different cultures all over the world?
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Ferdinand de Saussure
Roman Jakobson
Giovanni Boccaccio
Q. Who argued that language is structured out of differences?
Ferdinand de Saussure
Roman Jakobson
Charles Dickens
Samuel Beckett
Q. Who was the first to propose a science focused on the study of signs?
Vladimir Propp
Jacques Derrida
Roland Barthes
Ferdinand de Saussure